Chapter 98: The Rumorous Young Man

Until the beginning of the next day (3 a.m.), Cao Yong got up and the snow outside had not stopped.

Seeing that Cao Yong had finished washing up, Zi Jing held a navy green kesi gray squirrel cloak for him to change it. Seeing this, Cao Yong asked, "Is this customized in the middle of last month? Why haven't you seen it before?"

Amethyst replied: "This is from the Prince Ping's Mansion. When the Prince's Mansion made winter clothes earlier, the concubine sent someone to ask for the size of the uncle, such small hair and big hair jackets, each with twelve pieces."

"Sister really thinks I am a child!" Cao Yong smiled and shook his head, but he was moved. No matter what the thing is, the rare thing is this kind of thoughtfulness.

"It's okay for Ping'er and my second brother!" Cao Yong looked in the mirror and fixed his clothes collar.

"Well, but because of the winter clothes made in the palace at the end of September, the third girl and the second master have not yet arrived, so they have made more of these than the old man. The third girl has four small hairs and two big hairs on the house; the second master has two small hairs and two big hairs on the house, and the others are the materials sent.

Cao Yong nodded and said to Amethyst: "Ping'er is fine, she rarely goes out; my second brother goes to school every day and picks a few sets for him. The capital is so cold, it's not as cold as the south."

Seeing Cao Yong's appearance as his father and brother, Zi Jing couldn't help but smile and said, "Uncle, after having trouble, I can't help but freeze the second master? In October, I asked someone to come and make winter clothes. The second master and the third lady each have twelve sets. The old man forgot?"

Cao Yong patted his forehead: "Yes, there is something going on! I live this life and I think they are the first to come!"

Chai'er and Huan'er carried the small table and placed breakfast on the kang in the east room to prevent the food in the hall from getting colder.

Seeing that Cao Yong had eaten, Amethyst hesitated for a moment and still replied to Cao Song and Fangcha.

When Cao Song heard that Cao Song was fighting in the school, Cao Yong didn't take it seriously. Seeing Amethyst's face looked worried, he comforted her: "Don't worry about this, my second brother's temperament will never suffer any loss. If it were people outside, we should also consider it. They are just powerful children from relatives, and none of them are the opponents of the second brother! At the Jiangning School, the second brother had a lot of fights with classmates. They were all boys, and they were at the age of being competitive, so there was no need to deny him!"

Amethyst didn't show her beauty and looked at Cao Yong: "In addition to the second master's affairs, there is also Fangcha. He was beaten thirty days ago. The situation is not very good now!"

"Fang Cha?" Cao Yong was a little surprised: "Thirty boards, what's going on?"

Amethyst accidentally broke Fangcha’s hand stove, and quarreled with Vanilla at the gate, accusing Wei Hei and being punished by Cao Song, and then briefly told them in an unbiased and concise manner.

Cao Yong frowned slightly. Although he didn't feel sorry for anything, he was still a little unhappy when he knew Fangcha confronted Wei Hei. However, he even made a mistake and beat him like this. Therefore, he specially instructed Amethyst to ask for a good doctor.

Seeing that Cao Yong didn't mention going to visit him, Zi Jing hesitated and asked, "Uncle, don't you remember what happened when you were a child?"

"What happened when I was a child?" Cao Yong thought for a while: "I seemed to remember it, but for some reason it was blurred!" He was also surprised that when he woke up from this body, he had memories of Cao Yong when he was young, but it was blurred in a few days. Therefore, when he was kidnapped, it was so difficult for him to write a letter of help, and he could not remember some of the words he had learned before.

Although Cao Yin strictly prohibited the people in the mansion from hiding the kidnapped by Cao Yin in order to hide the old lady from the old lady, Amethyst also knew something. Thinking that since the old man experienced that incident, he acted very differently from the past, and was so sensible that it was heartbreaking, she sighed in her heart and said nothing more.

*

When he left the mansion, he was covered in a vast area. Cao Yong thought of Fangcha’s beating and was afraid that Wei Bai would feel unhappy, so he looked at him a few more times, thinking about whether he would accompany him for Cao Song.

Wei Bai just stepped on the snow without boots on the ground, and felt it was rare. Although their ancestral home was Hebei, they were born in the south and grew up in the south. This was the first time they saw such heavy snow, which made them feel a little childlike innocence.

Xiaoman was wearing a thick cotton coat and wanted to have fun. He picked up a handful of snow to Wu Mao and Wu Sheng's brothers. Wu Mao was older, so he didn't care about him, and retreated with a smile. Wu Sheng was about the same age as Xiaoman, and was also childish. Seeing that the old man didn't say blame, he also held the snow and fought with Xiaoman with snow poles.

Finally, Wei Hei looked at the sky and laughed at them and scolded: "Stop making trouble. After sending the old man back, let you make trouble for a few hours. If you don't leave now, it will delay the old man's school!"

Everyone smiled, shook off the snow from their clothes, and each turned over his horse and headed towards the Forbidden City.

*

When we arrived at the study room, or because of snow, everyone wore thick winter clothes. Even so, the little princes were trembling. The heating in the Forbidden City uses geothermal heat, with a transparent partition under the house. After the beginning of winter, it is stuffed with half-solid wood chips. After ignition, it burns slowly and can last for several months. Therefore, although the house is not cold, the temperature is not high. It is about to enter the twelfth lunar month, and it is catching up with heavy snow, so the heat in the house will be even less.

After the sixteenth prince came in wearing a thin-faced, green fox-skinned robe, he began to squat his fingers with Cao Yong to calculate the annual leave. When the twelfth lunar month was in Laba; after the twelfth lunar month, it was the 23rd Little New Year; when the twelfth lunar month was over, the emperor won the annual leave.

When Cao Yong heard this, he began to envy the children of later generations. At least there were more than forty days during the winter vacation, which was much happier than the princes hundreds of years ago.

After all the calculations, the sixteenth prince remembered something and smiled at Cao Yong, "In a few days, the fourth brother's mansion will be invited to take a concubine. Then we will have a drink together and we can leave the palace. Then we will go to Longfu Temple!"

Cao Yong also heard about this. The fourth prince was going to accept this time as the concubine of Nian Gengyao's sister Nian Shi in the palace during the October draft. From Nian Shi, I thought of Cousin Chen, who was the same talent show as her, and I wonder what the chrysanthemum was in the palace.

Half a day passed by, and when Cao Yong returned home, the snow had stopped.

*

Cao Yong entered the yard and came to Cao Song first. After looking at his little face, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Are you suffering a loss?"

Cao Song said proudly: "How can you lose my brother's face? Of course you don't suffer any loss! Don't look at my face, seven or eight of them told me to beat me down! You still want to bully me, hum, look for death!"

Cao Yong had always known that it would be good if he didn't go out to bully others, but basically no one could bully him: "There are still people who dare to bully you? Tell me, what's wrong?"

Cao Song started talking with a gaze.

It turned out that there were a few children in the school who had always been rampant, and they were quite a bit of a perfect attitude. Usually, they would be at peace with Cao Song's well without stumbled against the river. Who knew what happened yesterday? Several people said they wanted to see Cao Song's sword. Cao Song unloaded it to them, but they were very stanced to deny it. Cao Song had been angry. He turned his face and said he was stiff, so he made an appointment to compete in the back alley after class. Cao Song was experienced in many battles, so those people were not opponents, so they were naturally beaten to pieces.

The two brothers were talking when they came outside the door to report to Zhaojia's mansion and sent someone to invite Cao Song over.

Cao Song didn't know what was going on, he just felt strange and hurriedly asked the person who was passing the message to come in and ask in detail.

The man only said that the old man invited him, but he didn't know anything about the rest.

Xiaoman, who was standing beside him, knew his intention well, touched a piece of broken silver and quietly stuffed it into the man's hand.

The man took it, pressed it with his fingers, and then smiled and said, "When I reply to the words of the young master, I really don't know what happened. I just heard that he was also called Master De Wu, Master Che Liu and Uncle Lian from the North Courtyard."

When Cao Song heard this, he knew that the fight happened yesterday. The fifth and sixth masters mentioned by this man were Fengde and Fengche, the two sons of Cao Song's third cousin's family. Uncle Lian in the North Court is Suo Chuolo, the only son of Cao Song's aunt. Like Lian, like Cao Song, he was a student in Zhaojia Sect. Yesterday, the three of them fought with Cao Song with a few children.

After sending the person who came to deliver the letter, Cao Song felt a little unsure and shouted Cao Yong guiltily: "Brother..." but swallowed the words back. If he had a fight and asked his brother to help the boxing, he would be punished now, so how could he ask his brother to accompany him?

Cao Yong patted him on the shoulder: "Go and change your clothes, brother will accompany you."

Cao Song's eyes lit up, and he immediately had a backbone. He nodded heavily and hurriedly ran back to change his clothes.

*

The two rode out of the mansion. Along the way, Cao Yong reminded him a few words and told him to pay attention to the words. Even if the mistake was not his this time, he could not push them all on the other party. They were all cousins ​​and cousins. Leave room for speech and must be sincere.

Cao Song wrote down one by one. He saw the gate of Zhaojia Mansion from afar. He hurriedly said to Cao Yong: "Brother, my uncle will punish me later. You have to plead for me. I am not afraid of hitting me, but... it is too embarrassing..."

Cao Yong smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid of being beaten, but you are afraid of being embarrassed?"

Cao Song raised his back: "A man is a real man, a soldier can be killed but not humiliated."

Cao Yong glanced at him: "Don't say these two sentences later, it's really irrelevant. Your uncle will still be angry that you didn't read well, so I can't beat you up again."

Cao Song shrank his neck and stopped talking.

*

Fangjia Hutong, Zhaojia Mansion.

In the living room, Marhan, who was over 70 years old, had white hair and beard, and was sitting in the main seat wearing a lynx jacket with a slim face, holding a cover bowl and slowly savoring the tea. Below were Fengde, Fengche and Helian and the other three knelt side by side.

Marhan didn't ask any questions. The three of them didn't dare to speak, even if they were so arrogant, they were uneasy.

Cao Yong and Cao Song were led to the hall and saw this scene. The two looked at each other and bowed to Marhan.

Seeing that Cao Yong had also come, Marhan put down the cover bowl, cried out with a smile, and asked Cao Yong again, asking him to sit down and drink tea.

Cao Yong saw three kneeling straight on the ground, and his younger brother stood upright there, how could he sit? So he said a few words of politeness and stood aside with his hands down.

Marhan looked at it and knew his thoughts, so he didn't force it. He immediately coughed and asked Cao Song, "Song'er, what happened to the back alley of the school yesterday?"

Cao Song didn't expect that the uncle from the outside world would let him say a passing pass, and was stunned. He hated the complaint, and thought about the words of his brother asking him to leave room on the way. He bowed and replied: "Return to the uncle's words, yesterday, my grandson and cousin came to practice Buku in the back alley with nothing to do."

After hearing this childish lie, Marhan didn't raise his eyelids and asked again: "But Fengde and the others bully you?"

Cao Song still looked honest and replied: "The grandson dared not deceive his uncle. Fengde's cousin has always treated his grandson well and never bullied him."

The three kneeling men heard this, and their nervous nerves relaxed.

Marhan has always been majestic, and his children and grandchildren in the family are afraid of him. Therefore, when these three people heard that the old man called to ask, they were very scared. They asked around and asked about what they were doing, they were afraid that the fight happened yesterday. After all, the three people were in the wrong, and they were bullying the small and the host and the guest. No matter how they said it was, they couldn't stand it.

After asking around, I couldn't find out. The three of them had to bite the bullet and go to the front hall. The road made up an emergency set of words. After saying the old man asked, he pushed Cao Song all the wrong ones.

Unexpectedly, he kowtowed and asked An, but Marhan did not scream. The three of them knelt down and did not dare to move. They just hoped that the old man would ask, so they could confess their love and leave themselves clear. As a result, Marhan didn't even ask them, and just drank tea slowly. The three of them could not use the words they prepared, and they didn't know what the old man was thinking, so they couldn't help but feel panic.

When Cao Song came, the old man asked Cao Song first. The three of them were all over, saying that Cao Song would definitely bit them to death and could not run away and beat him today. Unexpectedly, Cao Song not only did not complain, but instead spoke for them. In addition to being surprised, they were obviously relieved.

Marhan saw everyone's expressions and was already calculating. Before calling everyone to come, he had already visited people. Although he didn't know the details of yesterday's incident, he also understood the general idea. Then he asked them to come to confirm and punish them to show justice.

At present, Cao Song, who was originally a victim, insisted that nothing happened yesterday, and was also a silly and honest person, and praised Fengde and the other three. Marhan knew that this nephew was not a cunning person who was rude and liked him, he did not intend to severely punish the three grandsons.

Marhan glanced over the faces of the three grandsons and said sternly: "Don't think I really don't know what you did! If Song'er said this today, I will spare you one more time. Next time, we will punish both crimes! Go down!"

The three of them kowtowed to Marhan and retreated respectfully.

Marhan also called Cao Yong and Cao Song. Then the two of them took the blame and sat down. After saying a few words to the old man, they got up and said goodbye.

*

After leaving the yard, he turned into the hall and saw Fengde, Fengche and Helian waiting for the Cao Yong brothers at the corner.

Because he had his brother here, Cao Song was not afraid of heaven or earth. He sneered, waved his fist, and said to the three of them: "What's wrong? Didn't you feel good yesterday? Come on, come on, let's continue today, I'll accompany you to the end!"

Fengche was the most insane. Because Cao Song helped them get rid of the board, he immediately thought Cao Song was his own. After hearing his words, he didn't think it was offended. Instead, he smiled and said, "The ribs are still green, so I dare not beat them anymore. Besides, the old man must beat us to death."

The older Fengde glanced at his younger brother and said to Cao Song: "You haven't complained today. We will accept your love. If you don't fight you in the future."

Cao Song curled his lips: "Hmph, what kind of hero is the complainant? You don't have to accept my affection. If you don't accept it, you will fight again!"

Fengde was still twitching his neck, but he was pulled aside by He Lian: "What did you say just now? Didn't you agree to recognize him as a brother? You still messed with him, do you still have to fight him? You don't know his strength!"

Fengde remembered Cao Song's fierce fist yesterday, so he stopped talking. He Lian came over and said to Cao Song seriously: "Look, you are also very happy. Let's make friends with you. You will be our younger brother in the future!"

Cao Song once swept the gangsters on the ground in Jiangning in the south. He took over as his younger brother no matter his age and became the king and domineering himself. At this time, he was the younger brother of three defeated generals. So he held his arms and looked at them squintedly: "Be my brother? You can't even beat me, and you still want to be my brother? This is my brother!" As he said that, he pulled Cao Yong, and then said: "My brother's kung fu is much better than you! I have only learned 30% of my brother's kung fu, no, 20%! Let's be my brother when you are better than my brother's kung fu!"

Cao Yong had a little parental feeling, and he looked at the kids with a smile. Who knew that his younger brother was dragged into the battle group and patted Cao Song on the shoulder: "They are all older than you. In terms of seniority, they have to call him brother."

Cao Song waved his head: "No, they have to call me brother. Otherwise, they will beat me again, whoever is the best is brother!"

Fengde and the other two looked at Cao Yong's scholarly school, not like Lian Jiazi, and couldn't help but say, "Your brother is really as powerful as you said?"

Cao Song raised his jaw proudly: "My brother is the imperial guard! Do you think it's amazing?!"

When Fengde and the other two heard the words "Imperial Guard" and immediately looked at each other with admiration. In their eyes, the masters were all generals and Imperial Guards, so Cao Yong's eyes were full of admiration. Regardless of age, they called Cao Yong "Brother Cao".

Cao Yong was amused and crying by a group of children, but Cao Song was very proud and patted his chest and said, "From now on, you will call me Brother Cao!"
Chapter completed!